Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago. A civil engineer since 1902, he built cantonments during the War. In 1923 he came to Washington as secretary for the Associated General Contractors of America. For the past two years he has been director of the obscure Employment Stabilization Board, relic of the Hoover era...
...will lead to their success of failure. Though the day when any reasonably informed man could carve a fortune and a career from the exploitable resources of the nation is past, so may be the day of indirection and uncertainty which was characteristic of an easy-going laissez-faire era. A man at Washington is working well, even if not always wisely, to set the wheels spinning for another hectic period. The prospect of a job seems not so vague and distant. But if the gains which the panaceas of inflation and public work have provided are to mean anything...
...Author. Though he is much younger (32) and better-looking than Sinclair Lewis (48), Glenway Wescott is almost as birthplace-ridden. In the beerless era, his public farewells to his native State helped keep the U. S. reading public Wisconsin-conscious. He has defined the Middle West as: "A place which has no fixed boundaries, no particular history; inhabited by no one race; always exhausted by its rich output of food, men, and manufactured articles: loyal to none of its many creeds, prohibitions, fads, hypocrisies; now letting itself be governed, now ungovernable." Sprig of an old U. S. family with...
...seceding from the Federal Reserve System rather than submit to such a levy. Even big national banks might exchange their Federal charters for State charters to escape from the Reserve. Such a withdrawal on a large scale might well wreck the whole Federal Reserve System and end an era in central bank history. On the other hand friends of the deposit guarantee loudly claimed that it would tend to drive all nonmember State banks into the Federal Reserve and create one national system, as no bank could do business outside the Government's magic circle of deposit insurance...
...appointment of Headmaster Northrop, urbane and unprofessorial, was pleasing to one Roxbury alumnus, Headmaster Samuel Smith Drury of St. Paul's School, who said: "Northrop is a teacher of light and leading. To me it seems possible that a man of his cultural insistence might lead a new era in the education of young boys...